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Bend Design Talk Featuring Rob Lewis
Join Scalehouse and Caldera Arts for a Bend Design talk featuring Rob Lewis, I Don’t Know If I Will But I Intend To.
Kamp Grizzly’s Rob Lewis will walk you down his unconventional path as an art director who likes making things. He’ll be talking about why it’s important to acknowledge your feelings, trust your instincts and remain inexhaustibly curious as you navigate the world as a creative person. And we’ll be exploring how collage fuels his approach to creative work. Rob will be joined by youth from Caldera Arts, and together, they’ll describe what it means to creatively problem-solve with art and design through the lens of young people in our world today.
Please note: Bend Design 2021 attendees will receive free admission to this event. Please be on the lookout for a separate email from Scalehouse!
Saturday, January 29
11am-12pm
$10, Virtual Zoom Event
Reservations are required and a Zoom link will be included in your confirmation email
Rotating Artists from Danger Punch + FO(u)RT Collectives
The current exhibition, Excuse Me: A Structural Device for Visual Communication, is changing weekly.
This week Sarah Abbott will be taking over the gallery.
Excuse Me: a Structural Device for Visual Communication is a collaborative exhibition from Danger Punch and FO(u)RT art collectives. Each week will showcase the work of an individual artist in response to a single poem by Dr. Jenna Goldsmith. This series of rapid exhibitions will highlight the similarities and differences of written word and visual art, informing each other while also pushing against each other.
About Sarah Abbott:
Sarah Abbott is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. She earned her BA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is co-founder of FO(u)RT, an interdisciplinary art collective dedicated to collaboration and critical discourse. Sarah primarily uses photography in conversation with other mediums to capture subjects within her customary field of vision and to direct attention to peripheral moments. Abbott currently exhibits locally and nationally.
About Danger Punch:
Danger Punch is an interdisciplinary collective from Portland, Oregon. Simple ideas are taken and collectively developed, both in the conceptual and technical aspect, through a devoted practice rooted in the process of making. Projects are thematically temporal, and aim to create a byproduct of fearless art making.
About FO(u)RT Collective:
FO(u)RT Collective is a multi-disciplinary collective comprised of four artists whose combined conceptual interests drive their creative practices and research inquiries. Based in Portland Oregon – Sarah Abbott, Lauren Seiffert, Jessie Spiess & Rachel Wolf – the members of FO(u)RT, individually and collectively engage a variety of artistic practices, including but not limited to: photography, sculpture, installation, printmaking, collage, writing and video. Their breadth of experience through practice and personal histories provides FO(u)RT with a broad spectrum of visions and voices, which culminates in collective works, exhibitions and public & private events.
The Scalehouse Gallery is open Wednesday-Saturday from 1-6pm. We are adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols and masks are required in the gallery.
Honoring Patricia Clark
We are deeply saddened by the passing of our friend, founding Board member, and driving force behind Scalehouse. She was more than a master printmaker, professor and arts advocate — she pushed us to learn, to grow and most of all, to believe in ourselves. And, she will be deeply missed.
We were fortunate to present this initiative to Pat before her passing, The Patricia Clark Studio. The Studio will honor Pat’s legacy and her original vision of Scalehouse by providing free studio space to working artists, a space for arts education programming and a place to remember Pat. She gifted Scalehouse her collection of sketchbooks and selected arts which will be housed at the Studio.
The Patricia Clark Studio will be located next door to the Scalehouse Gallery in the Franklin Crossing Building, in the Tin Pan Alley. Scalehouse Gallery is the home to the contemporary art space presenting bold, new work by artists representing a broad range of identities and perspectives which might not otherwise be seen in Bend. The Patricia Clark Studio and Scalehouse Gallery will connect audiences to boundary-pushing ideas, the creative practice, experiences and expressions through direct access to artists.